Nixon biographer live-tweets Watergate-era tapes

"In the end people will look back and say, by God, they had guts," Nixon reportedly said

Shares

August 22, 2013 12:36AM (UTC)

John Aloysius Farrell, a biographer of Tip O'Neill and Clarence Darrow who is currently working on a book about Richard Nixon, listened in to the last of his White House tapes -- taken during the Watergate Era and released by Nixon's presidential library on Wednesday. Farrell live-tweeted some choice snippets, and here are the highlights:

[embedtweet id="370249893362688001"]

Advertisement:

[embedtweet id="370250409610207234"]

[embedtweet id="370250604032958464"]

[embedtweet id="370252805451165696"]

[embedtweet id="370254063775928320"]

[embedtweet id="370256105693134848"]

[embedtweet id="370257191531343873"]

[embedtweet id="370257679429558272"]

[embedtweet id="370258460371202048"]

[embedtweet id="370263250333478912"]

[embedtweet id="370267195047043072"]

[embedtweet id="370267486156894208"]

[embedtweet id="370269372264099840"]

[embedtweet id="370269596302852096"]

Jillian Rayfield

Jillian Rayfield is an Assistant News Editor for Salon, focusing on politics. Follow her on Twitter at @jillrayfield or email her at jrayfield@salon.com.